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Located in the Sheridan Opera House, the Festival Store & Hospitality is the place to pick up your 3-Day pass and purchase official Telluride Horror Show H merchandise.
Films screen at the Nugget Theatre, Sheridan Opera House, and the newly-added “Gargoyle Room” in the Wilkinson Public Library. At the Nugget Theatre and Sheridan Opera House, there are two lines: 1) Pass holders. 2) The line to buy an individual ticket. Individual tickets are $10 each, unless otherwise noted. Individual tickets are only sold at the door and after all pass holders have been admitted. All films & programs at the “Gargoyle Room” in the Wilkinson Public Library are FREE after pass holders have been admitted.
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If lines start to form at the theaters, our staff may issue Q tickets. Qs are handed out so we can determine how many people are waiting in line for a film. This tells us if we’re going to reach capacity for a show and if we need to tell those at the end of the line to go to another theater. If there is a particular program that you really want to see, we highly recommend getting in line at the venue in advance to avoid being turned away to another venue due to a sold-out show.
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SPECIAL GUEST JOE R. LANSDALE
GUEST AUTHOR Joe R. Lansdale, a native of East Texas, is the acclaimed author of over forty novels, three hundred short pieces of fiction and non-fiction, plays, poetry, screenplays, and graphic novels. Film adaptations of Lansdale’s work include the cult classic Bubba Ho-tep (directed by Don Coscarelli with Bruce Campbell), Cold In July, Christmas With The Dead, as well as Incident On And Off A Mountain Road for Showtime’s Masters of Horror. His popular series of crime novels, Hap and Leonard, is currently the basis for the hit Sundance TV series of the same name. He has written scripts for Batman The Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, adapted the animated Son of Batman to film, as well as others. Lansdale has received countless awards for his work, including The Edgar from The Mystery Writers of America, The Spur From Western Writers of America, nine Bram Stokers from The
Horror Writers Association, The Grinzani Cavour Prize, and many others. He has been awarded Grandmaster of Horror and Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association. On top of all that, he’s been inducted into The International Martial Arts Hall of Fame and The United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
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A DARK SONG
ANOTHER EVIL
SAT, 1:00PM, NUGGET SUN, 10:00AM, GARGOYLE ROOM
SAT, 12:00PM, GARGOYLE ROOM SUN, 3:00PM, GARGOYLE ROOM
Ireland/UK | 2016 | 99 min | Director: Liam Gavin
USA | 2016 | 90 min | Director: Carson Mell
COLORADO PREMIERE A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
BEYOND THE WALLS
HERE ALONE
SUN, 5:00PM, NUGGET
FRI, 4:30PM, NUGGET SUN, 5:30PM, SHERIDAN
France | 2016 | 142 min | Director: Hervé Hadmar COLORADO PREMIERE Lisa’s fate takes a dramatic turn when she inherits a mysterious uninhabited old house left to her in the will of its deceased owner. Lisa moves into the house with no inkling of the mysteries that await her.
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COLORADO PREMIERE After encountering a ghost in their vacation home, Dan (Steve Zissis) and his wife Mary (Jennifer Irwin) consult an exorcist. Unsatisfied with the verdict, Dan goes behind his wife’s back to seek a second opinion, and secretly hires Os (Mark Proksch) who promises to get rid of the beings. Os and Dan spend a week together in the vacation home exorcising the “EFD” (Evil Fully Determined) beings, but Dan soon realizes that ridding the home of evil won’t be as simple as it seems.
USA | 2016 | 97 min | Director: Rod Blackhurst COLORADO PREMIERE Ann, a young woman in her late 20s, struggles to survive alone in the woods after a mysterious epidemic decimates society. Bleak, gritty, and teeming with fear, “Here Alone” tells a story of survival and emotional redemption set in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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features
IBIZA UNDEAD
INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD
UK | 2016 | 95 min | Director: Andy Edwards FRI, 2:00PM, NUGGET
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Three best friends - Alex, Az and Jim - head to Ibiza for their first lad’s holiday. Unfortunately, tagging along is Alex’s unimpressed ex-girlfriend Ellie. Arriving on the island, the lads dump Ellie with Alex’s sister Liz, and her friend Zara, and head to San Antonio to start their week of sun, sea and debauchery. Soon they end up in a club, run by local gangster Karl, where the attractions aren’t all alive - they’re zombies! Due to Jim’s drunken antics the zombies escape, and soon all hell breaks loose and no one on the party island is safe.
SAT, 1:00PM, SHERIDAN
SPECIAL PRESENTATION (courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment) Followed by a conversation with guest author Joe R. Lansdale. Based on Joe R. Lansdale’s short story and directed by horror legend Don Coscarelli, this “Masters of Horror” episode, originally aired in 2005 on Showtime, pits Ellen, a seemingly defenseless young woman, against Moonface, a deformed and demented serial killer.
KILL COMMAND
MAN UNDERGROUND
SAT, 10:00AM, NUGGET
FRI, 4:30PM, GARGOYLE ROOM
UK | 2015 | 99 min | Director: Steven Gomez NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE When an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-thegrid island facility, a simple training exercise quickly descends into a terrifying battle to the death as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.
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USA | 2005 | 51 min | Director: Don Coscarelli
USA | 2015 | 93 min | Directors: Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec COLORADO PREMIERE In a small town, Willem, a retired geologist and conspiracy theorist, struggles to find an audience for his controversial beliefs. After befriending some locals, Willem decides to make a low-budget movie about his life, re-enacting scenes from his crumbled marriage and his encounters with aliens while working for the government. Confronting his past, he grows increasingly paranoid about his future.
FILMS
RATS
SADAKO VS. KAYAKO
SUN, 12:30PM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 5:20PM, GARGOYLE ROOM SAT, 10:30PM, NUGGET
USA | 2016 | 84 min | Director: Morgan Spurlock
Japan | 2016 | 98 min | Director: Koji Shiraishi
Inspired by Robert Sullivan’s New York Times bestselling book, RATS goes deep beneath the surface to explore the lives of man’s greatest parasite. Oscar® nominated director Morgan Spurlock unveils a new form of documentary horror storytelling, journeying around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while delving into our complicated relationship with these creepy creatures. In ways never before captured on film, RATS dives deep into New York City’s parks, subway tunnels, and sewers; venture to rice paddies in Cambodia and Vietnam where rats are caught and sold as food, cross worldly streets in India paroled by the revered Night Rat Killers, journey to the English countryside where packs of terriers kill hundreds of rats per day, and look inside a New Orleans lab, where scientists are studying how abandoned neighborhoods are making rats more invasive than ever. A film as dark and disturbing as any horror movie, RATS is not for the weak of heart, or stomach, and Viewer Discretion is strongly advised.
COLORADO PREMIERE After viewing a legendary cursed videotape, Natsumi discovers she has only two days before she will be killed by the demonic entity known as Sadako. The only way to break the curse: Pitting the demon Sadako against Kayako, an accursed spirit possessing a haunted house where everyone who enters disappears.
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SPRING BREAK ZOMBIE MASSACRE
SAT, 3:00PM, GARGOYLE ROOM
SAT, 3:45PM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2016 | 88 min | Director: Dean Ronalds WORLD PREMIERE When an internet company decides to investigate a series of ‘Screamer’ videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.
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USA | 2016 | 45 min | Director: Robert Carnevale
COLORADO PREMIERE Followed by a Q&A with Sam & Mattie and friends. Sam and Mattie, just two regular guys living up their senior year of high school. The two BFFs have girlfriends, they’re popular, they’re in a rock band. All is good until prom night, when the devil shows up looking for Sam and Mattie and ruins prom by peeing in the punch bowl. Twenty years ago, Sam and Mattie were born with the fate that one day they’d be bionic heroes with the power to save all of humanity. The devil tried to kidnap the boys at birth, but was unsuccessful, killing their mothers instead before being sucked back into Hell. Since then, the devil has been determined to destroy Sam and Mattie before they can destroy him. Now it’s time for Sam and Mattie to get revenge. From prom to Spring break to epic boat parties with DJ Pauly D, Sam and Mattie embark on a wild (and hilarious) quest to conquer the devil once and for all.
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features
TERRIFIER
THE EYES OF MY MOTHER
SAT, 7:30PM, SHERIDAN
FRI, 8:00PM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2016 | 84 min | Director: Damien Leone
USA | 2016 | 77 min | Director: Nicolas Pesce
US PREMIERE Followed by a Q&A with director Damien Leone. A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.... In 2011, director Damien Leone came to the Telluride Horror Show with his short film, “Terrifier”. A true grindhouse flick with a brutal killer, the short was met with a standing ovation. Now Damien returns to Telluride with the long-awaited feature length version. Art the Clown is back, and more insane than ever.
THE GIRL WITH TWO FACES
THE WINDMILL
FRI, 2:00PM, GARGOYLE ROOM
FRI, 8:00PM, NUGGET
France | 2016 | 76 min | Director: Romain Serir
COLORADO PREMIERE Clarisse meets Marc, a young surgeon. She spends the night with him in his mansion. In the morning, she realizes that she has been fooled. She’s now held against her will...
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COLORADO PREMIERE In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor horrifyingly shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening some unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a distinctly dark form.
Netherlands | 2016 | 85 min | Director: Nick Jongerius COLORADO PREMIERE Followed by a Q&A with director Nick Jongerius. A group of unsuspecting tourists awaken a mysterious evil while on a trip through the Dutch countryside.
FILMS
TRASH FIRE
WE ARE THE FLESH
SAT, 7:30PM, NUGGET SUN, 10:00AM, NUGGET
FRI, 10:15PM, NUGGET
USA | 2016 | 93 min | Director: Richard Bates, Jr.
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Mexico | 2016 | 80 min | Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter
COLORADO PREMIERE When Owen is forced to confront the past he’s been running from his whole life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit, and murder. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be scarred for life. From the director of “Excision” and “Suburban Gothic”.
COLORADO PREMIERE Set in a post-apocalypse Mexico, a brother and sister wander a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter. They find their way into one of its last surviving buildings, where a man makes them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world. As they help him transform the building into a womb-like cave, a disquieting sexual relationship emerges, along with a dynamic in which darker instincts do their destructive work. Extreme Content. Viewer Discretion is strongly advised.
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ACCIDENTS, BLUNDERS AND CALAMITIES
New Zealand | 2015 | 5 min Director: James Cunningham A father possum reads his kids a story that’s an alphabet of the most dangerous animal of all – HUMANS!
THE HORROR....THE ANIMATED Grisly, Ghastly Animated Shorts at Telluride Horror Show FRI, 4:30PM,SHERIDAN
Mark Shapiro from LAIKA, the Portland-based animation studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings, curates a special animated horror shorts block gleaned from major film festivals across the globe. The creative, visual program includes drawn, computer-generated and stop-motion animation, featuring new short films and several undeniable classics. But you heard it here first: Do NOT bring the kiddies…
THE BACKWATER GOSPEL
Denmark | 2010 | 10 min Director: Bo Mathorne As long as anyone can remember, the coming of the Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God-fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die.
UNDER THE APPLE TREE
Netherlands/Belgium | 2015 | 18 min Director: Erik van Schaaik A deceased farmer is buried by his hated brother, the vicar. Worms inhabit the corpse, discovering they’ve full control over it. The dead farmer awakens…
YÙL AND THE SNAKE PHIL TIPPETT’S MAD GOD: PARTS 1 & 2
USA | 2014/2015 | 26 min Director: Phil Tippett In Phil Tippett’s epic homage to the art of stopmotion, The Assassin continues his mission to find and destroy the dark heart of a doomed world. Will The Assassin succumb to the shadows of his descent, or will he bring salvation to the unfortunate creatures that inhabit the cracks and crevasses of a hellish dystopia?
THE PRODIGY: WILD FRONTIER
Netherlands | 2015 | 4 min Director: Mascha Halberstad While camping in the woods, Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism. WILD FRONTIER is a music video for The Prodigy.
TRAVEL BY FEET
Spain | 2015 | 15 min | Director: Khris Cembe A night train journey. A wagon full of passengers. An annoying companion in your compartment... What would you be willing to do in order to have a peaceful journey?
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France | 2015 | 13 min Director: Gabriel Harel Yùl, 13 years old, goes with his big brother Dino to conclude a deal with Mike, a thug escorted by his Argentinian mastiff. When things go wrong, a mysterious snake appears.
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KILL COMMAND
A DARK SONG
PORTAL TO HELL!!! • THE MAN WHO CAUGHT A MERMAID • PEARLIES THE INCREDIBLE TALE OF THE INCREDIBLE WOMAN-SPIDER • YOU WILL NEVER FIND MY BODY DRYAD • AS THEY CONTINUE TO FALL • THEY WILL ALL DIE IN SPACE 7:30PM - 9:30PM
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“HOW I BECAME A BAD ASS HORROR FILMMAKER”
TRASH FIRE
INTERIOR. FAMILY. • HILDE • LITTLE BOY BLUE • A NEARLY PERFECT BLUE SKY
CONVERSATION WITH JOE BEGOS & MICKEY KEATING
3:00PM - 4:30PM
A LOOK INSIDE THE WORLD OF INDIE HORROR FILMMAKING WITH 2015 GUEST DIRECTORS JOE BEGOS (ALMOST HUMAN/THE MIND’S EYE) AND MICKEY KEATING (DARLING/CARNAGE PARK/ PSYCHOPATHS).
5:00PM - 7:30PM
3:00PM - 4:30PM
ANOTHER EVIL
TBA
BEYOND THE WALLS 8:30PM - 10:00PM
TBA
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ACCIDENTS, BLUNDERS AND CALAMITIES • TRAVEL BY FEET UNDER THE APPLE TREE • THE PRODIGY: WILD FRONTIER MAD GOD: PART 1 • YÙL AND THE SNAKE MAD GOD: PART 2 • THE BACKWATER GOSPEL
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6:30PM - 7:30PM
8:00PM - 9:30PM
CREEPY CAMPFIRE TALES
THE EYES OF MY MOTHER
10:00PM - 12:00AM “Squirm” SHORTS BLOCK:
WITH JOE R. LANSDALE
ELKS PARK: ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE (OPEN TO PUBLIC)
A REASONABLE REQUEST • EAT MY SHIT • I WANT YOU INSIDE ME • KITCHEN_REMODEL.WMV GWILLIAM • WHEN SUSURRUS STIRS • THE PROCEDURE • KILL THE BABY
BONFIRE AND AUTHOR READING! OCTOBER 15
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10:00AM - 11:30AM “Horror, Ha Ha!” SHORTS BLOCK:
2:30PM - 3:30PM
THE BLACK BEAR • HANDJOB CABIN (OFFICIAL TRAILER) • GIRL #2 BILL’S LANDSCAPE AND EXORCISM SERVICES • CONVENTIONAL • NUTS • HARUM SKARUM • DEATH METAL GHOST STORY CLUB • JUDY • OVERTIME • STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
BOOK SIGNING
WITH JOE R. LANSDALE
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE
1:00PM - 2:30PM
(OPEN TO PUBLIC)
INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD
SELECT WORKS BY LANSDALE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE COURTESY OF BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKSTORE.
FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION WITH GUEST AUTHOR JOE R. LANSDALE
3:45PM - 5:00PM
SPRING BREAK ZOMBIE MASSACRE
Q&A WITH SAM & MATTIE AND FRIENDS
7:30PM - 9:30PM
TERRIFIER
Q&A WITH DIRECTOR DAMIEN LEONE
FRIDAY
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FREE PIG, CASH BAR.
10:30PM - 12:00AM “Fear Itself” SHORTS BLOCK:
PHOBIA • HADA • PIECES • THE HOME • ARCANA • THE BIRCH • KOOKIE REED • THE SMILING MAN • HIDE: BLOODY MARY • STILL
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DOLL • BLIGHT • JEZEBEL • CURVE • THE STYLIST THE TUNNEL • THE BABYSITTER MURDERS 12:30PM - 2:00PM
RATS
SUNDAY 5:00PM - 7:30PM
BLOODY DISGUSTING PRESENTS: HORROR TRIVIA NIGHT OAK: LOCATED AT BASE OF GONDOLA (OPEN TO 3-DAY PASS HOLDERS)
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Join us for the first annual Horror Movie Trivia Night! Presented by Bloody Disgusting, join hosts Jonathan Barkan and Brad McHargue as they take you through ten rounds of horror trivia madness and mayhem. Win prizes! Drink beer! Get angry at your friends for missing that one question they totally swore they knew! No more than six players to a team.
8:30PM - 10:00PM
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HERE ALONE
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Individual tickets: $10 at door, cash only. TBAs are usually second screenings of the more popular films.
FILMS
shorts
A NEARLY PERFECT BLUE SKY
A REASONABLE REQUEST
AS THEY CONTINUE TO FALL
FRI, 10:00PM SHERIDAN
A desperate son reconnects with his estranged father to ask an unspeakable favor that will change their lives forever.
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
SUN, 12:30PM, NUGGET
ARCANA
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BLIGHT
France | 2016 | 36 min | Director: Quarxx You might think that Simon lives a monotonous life. You would be wrong... Contrary to appearances, he does not live alone among the ruins of an old farm. Between kidnapper and guardian angel, he never takes his eyes off his roommate. Convinced of having contacts with beings from elsewhere, Simon is getting lost one step at a time while the border between reality and nightmare is progressively fading away.
Portugal | 2015 | 11 min Director: Jerónimo Rocha SAT,10:30PM, SHERIDAN
US PREMIERE Eleventh century, somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula. In a dark and wet dungeon, a heretical is chained to a column with a salt protective line around her. Left to her thoughts, she plans a way to escape...
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USA | 2015 | 9 min | Director: Andrew Laurich
USA | 2016 | 7 min | Director: Nikhil Bhagat
IN PERSON: Nikhil Bhagat An aging drifter hunts fallen angels in a city slowly falling apart.
Ireland | 2015 | 15 min | Director: Brian Deane Canada | 2016 | 6 min | Director: Angus Swantee SUN,10:00AM,SHERIDAN SAT,10:00AM,SHERIDAN A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural IN PERSON: Angus Swantee forces threatening a remote Island community. A trio of bumbling landscapers chase their passion for exorcism into a shady gig to cleanse a girl of a malicious demon.
FILMS
CONVENTIONAL
CURVE
DEATH METAL
SAT,10:00AM,SHERIDAN
SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
DOLL
DRYAD
EAT MY SHIT
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2015 | 9 min | Director: Karen Gillan A scream queen deals with her fall from stardom.
USA | 2016 | 6 min | Director: Michael Peer SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
WORLD PREMIERE IN PERSON: Michael Peer A personal fitness trainer has an unhealthy relationship with dolls.
Australia | 2016 | 10 min | Director: Tim Egan A girl wakes to find she is resting at the apex of a smooth, curved surface high above a pitch-black abyss. With no toe-hold or crevasse she must rely on the friction of her palms to climb the Curve and cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death. Beneath her, strange sounds emanate up from the darkness …
France | 2015 | 11 min Director: Thomas Vernay The wind blows, noises of armor resound. A knight escorts a young woman athwart plains. The thunder begins to scold, clouds invade the landscape. The knight, worried, stares at the castle on the horizon. The end is close.
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USA | 2016 | 5 min | Director: Chris McInroy IN PERSON: Chris McInroy A metalhead gets passed down a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds.
Spain | 2015 | 4 min Director: Eduardo Casanova Samantha has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has been censored and deleted for alleged “sexual content”. Samantha did not choose to be born this way. Samantha is sick and tired of people’s laughs.
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FILMS
shorts
GHOST STORY CLUB
GIRL #2
GWILLIAM
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
HADA
HANDJOB CABIN (OFFICIAL HD TRAILER)
HARUM SKARUM
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2015 | 6 min | Director: Jared Lapidus WORLD PREMIERE The kids of Ghost Story Club are looking for a new member to tell scary stories by the campfire. But when Gary’s Uncle Wally comes by to tell a spooky tale, it turns out Wally may have a horrible misunderstanding about ghosts.
Spain | 2015 | 9 min | Director: Tony Morales SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
Tonight, Hada comes to visit Daniel because his last baby tooth has fallen out. What Daniel doesn´t know is that his worst enemy is the light.
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USA | 2016 | 9 min | Director: David H. Jeffery “Hell Week” takes on a whole new meaning when a terrifying killer is on the loose and sorority sisters Jenn and Stacey must fight to survive a night of horror. Will they become victims? Or come face to face with another evil?
USA | 2015 | 3 min | Director: Bennet Silverman A trailer for the breakout horror film “Handjob Cabin” – the story of four friends whose cabin vacation turns deadly when they find a sexually frustrated ghost.
USA | 2015 | 6 min | Director: Brian Lonano A recently released criminal is looking for a good time. He can forget his sins but he can never forget...Gwilliam.
USA | 2015 | 2 min Director: Thomas Humphreys
IN PERSON: Thomas Humphreys I hope you like wetting your bed forever.
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HIDE: BLOODY MARY
USA | 2016 | 3 min | Director: Evan Sweet SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
IN PERSON: Evan Sweet Surrounded by the dark woods, Cooper plays Bloody Mary within the confines of his lonely cabin. He shouldn’t have.
INTERIOR.FAMILY
Spain | 2014 | 9 min Directors: Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler, & David Torras SUN, 12:30PM, NUGGET
A couple of loving parents wake up their son in the middle of the night. They need to talk to him about an urgent and horrifying matter that will change his life forever.
HILDE
Germany/Switzerland | 2016 | 20 min | Director: Felix Knoche
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I WANT YOU INSIDE ME
USA | 2016 | 13 min | Director: Alice Shindelar FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
SUN, 12:30PM, NUGGET
After an accident at the lake, 11-year-old Melly experiences a strange metamorphosis. Her mother Hilde desperately tries to keep up normality.
An introverted teenager loses her virginity and her boyfriend in one fell orgasm; a sensitive portrait of adolescence that builds to one helluva FX gag that’s both funny and frightening.
JEZEBEL
JUDY
USA | 2016 | 10 min | Director: Nick Phillips SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
In the early 1900s, a seemingly lonely prostitute draws men to her flat with much more sinister plans in mind.
USA | 2016 | 10 min Directors: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
IN PERSON: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner A man opens a door to a robot that boasts exceptional ability and intelligence, but the man has only one thing on his mind: Practiced vulgarity that escalates to a darkly hysterical extreme.
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shorts
KILL THE BABY
USA | 2015 | 58 min Directors: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner
KITCHEN_REMODEL.WMV
USA | 2016 | 3 min | Director: Brook Linder FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
(Beyond description...)
LITTLE BOY BLUE
NAKED UNDER THE LEATHER
IN PERSON: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner A man decides to kill his baby. Chaos ensues.
Australia | 2016 | 30 min Director: Nathan Keene
SUN, 12:30PM, NUGGET
On a rural farm, a lonely girl must face a dark secret when she discovers a boy held captive in a neighboring farm’s barn.
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Brazil | 2015 | 21 min | Director: Lucas Sá FRI, 10:15PM, NUGGET
She protects her flesh, but the skin starts to peel off.
KOOKIE
Canada | 2016 | 13 min Director: Justin Harding SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
IN PERSON: Justin Harding Bree, a dishonest 9-year-old, receives a terrifying visitor after a parenting lesson goes horribly wrong.
NUTS
USA | 2016 | 4 min | Director: Theo Sena SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
A quiet morning turns dangerous when a man is attacked by his zombified neighbor. The man soon discovers that zombies may be the least of his problems.
FILMS
ORENDA
OVERTIME
PEARLIES
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
PHOBIA
PIECES
PORTAL TO HELL!!!
SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2016 | 8 min | Director: Anthony Ngo SAT, 7:30PM, NUGGET
PHANTOM SWAY 48 HOUR FILM CONTEST WINNER Orenda is a horror short that tells the story of a babysitter who makes the frightening discovery that her latest job is anything but typical. This film won the Phantom Sway 48 Hour Film Contest in 2016.
USA | 2016 | 3 min | Director: Chris Barron WORLD PREMIERE IN PERSON: Chris Barron Sometimes you have a reason to be afraid.
Australia | 2016 | 8 min Director: Craig D. Foster It’s getting late on a Friday night and Ralph is keen to get out of the office, but the boss won’t let him. No big deal, right? It’s just that the full moon is rising and Ralph is kind of a werewolf.
UK | 2016 | 15 min | Director: Dan Sunley US PREMIERE Isabella arrives at her deceased grandmother’s home to do what her parents won’t, clear the house of its belongings. As she sorts through the personal effects she discovers an old notebook, inside is a single piece of a jigsaw next to the scrawled words ‘finish it’. When strange noises come from the attic that night, Isabella investigates the loft to find a tin box of more puzzle pieces. But as she begins to put the jigsaw together, she realises she is not alone; a haunting presence still lingers in the house and it gets closer with every piece she finds…
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France | 2015 | 13 min Director: Pascal Thiebaux Quenottes (Pearlies) is a story about a little mouse, but not just any mouse. It is THE little mouse, or tooth fairy, of your childhood. The one that brought you your first coin in exchange for the tooth under your pillow. In everybody’s mind, the little mouse is a benevolent and generous character…What if it isn’t? What if it is actually a neurotic psychopath obsessing about its collection of dental trophies? If a tooth is missing, it simply must be replaced. By any means necessary…
Canada | 2015 | 12 min Director: Vivieno Caldinelli
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
A crusty and reclusive superintendent is thrown into the ultimate fight against evil when a couple of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mystical city of R’lyeh, awakening a slumbering god.
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shorts
REED
USA | 2014 | 8 min Directors: Benjamin & Spencer Allred
STILL
England | 2016 | 7 min | Director: Oliver Park SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
Ireland | 2015 | 12 min Director: Conor McMahon
SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
A woman is plagued by a masked, statuesque figure that never moves.
THE BABYSITTER MURDERS
THE BIRCH
THE BLACK BEAR
SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
IN PERSON: Benjamin & Spencer Allred While on a nightly walk, a man searches for his dog through a maze of reeds with nothing but a flashlight to see. Shot completely through the point of view of our main character, the man soon realizes he is not alone among the reeds.
USA | 2015 | 21 min | Director: Ryan Spindell SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
A dark and stormy night. An innocent babysitter all alone. An escaped psychopath out for blood. You know how this story will play out… Or do you?
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UK | 2016 | 5 min Directors: Ben Franklin & Anthony Melton A bullied schoolboy takes drastic measures against his tormenter, summoning an ancient being in the woods using a spellbound book passed down through the generations of his family.
SAT, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
Two lonely people find the love they were searching for. Well, one lonely person and one banshee!
France/Belgium | 2015 | 16 min | Directors: Méryl Fortunat-Rossi & Xavier Séron Rule #1: Never feed bears. Rule #2: Do not approach within 100 meters. Rule #3: Avoid surprising bears. Rule #4: Keep your dog on a leash. Now you know the rules, we wish you a pleasant stay in the natural park of the black bear.
FILMS
THE HOME
USA | 2016 | 7 min | Director: L. Gustavo Cooper SAT,10:30PM, SHERIDAN
THE INCREDIBLE TALE OF THE INCREDIBLE WOMAN-SPIDER
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THE MAN WHO CAUGHT A MERMAID
Australia | 2015 | 16 min Director: Kaitlin Tinker
Set in Ireland at a 19th century home for pregnant women out of wedlock, The Home tells the story of a young pregnant woman fighting for her sanity (and her unborn child) as an ancient evil descends on the convent..
France/Spain/Turkey | 2016 | 17 min Director: Pablo Guirado SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
As a young man wanders through the deserted streets at night, he comes across a poster outside a bar that invites him to discover a strange show, that of “The Incredible Woman-Spider”.
An old fisherman, obsessed with capturing a mermaid, has been doing extensive training to be ready for a possible life in the sea. This puts considerable strain on his marriage. One day, everything changes.
THE PROCEDURE
THE SMILING MAN
THE STYLIST
FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
SAT, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN
SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
USA | 2016 | 4 min | Director: Calvin Reeder A man is captured and forced to endure a strange experiment.
USA | 2015 | 7 min | Director: A.J. Briones IN PERSON: A.J. Briones A little girl home alone finds herself face-to-face with pure evil.
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
USA | 2016 | 15 min | Director: Jill Gevargizian IN PERSON: Jill Gevargizian Claire is a lonely hairstylist with an unnerving desire to escape her disappointing reality. When her final client of the evening arrives with the request to look perfect, Claire has plans of her own.
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shorts
THE TUNNEL
Norway | 2016 | 12 min Director: André Øvredal SUN, 10:00AM, SHERIDAN
An overcrowded future. A terrible solution. A family stuck in a traffic jam.
YOU WILL NEVER FIND MY BODY
USA | 2016 | 14 min | Director: Kyle Morgan SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
IN PERSON: Kyle Morgan A woman is forced to confront the horrors of the deep forest that haunt her every night.
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THEY WILL ALL DIE IN SPACE WHEN SUSURRUS STIRS
Spain | 2015 | 15 min | Director: Javier Chillon
USA | 2016 | 10 min | Director: Anthony Cousins
SAT, 3:45PM, NUGGET
FRI, 10:00PM, SHERIDAN
The starship Tantalus drifts through space.
IN PERSON: Anthony Cousins A body horror tale like no other. A man finds purpose in his meaningless life when he becomes host to an ancient creature named Susurrus.
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STAFF FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Ted Wilson PUBLICIST & MARKETING DIRECTOR: Travis Volz LEAD PROGRAMMERS: Erik Cooper, Brady Richards TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Curt Rousse SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Mark Cheney PROJECTIONISTS: Derrick Casto, Gypsie Frank, Scott Rahilly, Luci Reeve PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Wanashe Frank GUEST HOST: Jonathan Barkan HOSTS/PROGRAMMERS: Brad McHargue, Mark Shapiro, Mike Snoonian THEATRE MANAGERS: Bart Steck, Jeff Taylor, Timmy Territo
MERCHANDISE DIRECTOR: Anna Henderson HOSPITALITY: Ellen & Julian Thayn, Joe & Grace Wilson, Pete Wilson VOLUNTEERS: Brandon Coker, Caitlin Ketel, Mike Marchyok, Pat Marchyok, Erick Mosher, Jim Riley, Jeff Romero, Katie Sams, Sherry Snyder, Colin Sullivan, Hannah Testa, Julie Vergari FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Ellie Cannella POSTER ARTIST: Mark Zingarelli PROGRAM DESIGN: Barbara Kondracki WEBSITE/LOGO DESIGN: Joe Wilson BABYSITTERS: Tom & Hope Wilson
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